My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh with Jodie Harsh

Dec 11, 2025
55 mins

Episode Description

This week's book guest is My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.


Sara and Cariad are joined by legendary DJ and music producer Jodie Harsh who recently published her own memoir, You Had To Be There: An Odyssey Through Noughties London, One Night at a Time.


In this episode they discuss Crossrail, nostalgia, Amy Winehouse, the twelve steps, Soho and the National Lottery.


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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh is available here.

You Had To Be There by Jodie Harsh is available here.


Follow Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club on Instagram @saraandcariadsweirdosbookclub and Twitter @weirdosbookclub


Tickets for Sara's tour show I Am A Strange Gloop are available to buy from sarapascoe.co.uk

Cariad's children's book Lydia Marmalade and the Christmas Wish is out in paperback here now.

 

Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.

Artwork by Welcome Studio. 

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